The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
LILY TOMLINMan invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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